The last few decades has seen a prolonged debate over the nature and importance of social class as a basis for ideology, class voting and class politics. The prevailing assumption is that, in western societies, class inequalities are no longer important in determining political behaviour. In The End of Class Politics? leading scholars from the US, UK and Europe argue that the evidence on which the assumptions about the decline importance of class is based is unfounded. Instead, the book argues that the class basis of political competition has to some degree evolved, but not declined.…mehr
The last few decades has seen a prolonged debate over the nature and importance of social class as a basis for ideology, class voting and class politics. The prevailing assumption is that, in western societies, class inequalities are no longer important in determining political behaviour. In The End of Class Politics? leading scholars from the US, UK and Europe argue that the evidence on which the assumptions about the decline importance of class is based is unfounded. Instead, the book argues that the class basis of political competition has to some degree evolved, but not declined. Furthermore, the social basis of political competition and sweeping claims about the new politics of postindustrial society need to be re-examined.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Dr Geoffrey Evans is Faculty Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford
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* 1: Geoffrey Evans: Class Voting: From Premature Obituary to Reasoned Appraisal * Part 1: The Broad Comparative Picture * 2: Paul Nieuwbeerta and Nan Dirk De Graaf: Traditional Class Voting in 20 Postwar Societies * Part II: Case Study of Western Democracies * 3: John H. Goldthorpe: Modelling the Pattern of Class Voting in British Elections * 4: Michael Hout, Jeff Manza, and Clem Brooks: Classes, Unions, and the Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting: 1952-1992 * 5: David L. Weakliem and Anthony F. Heath: The Secret Life of Class Voting: Britain, France, and the United States Since the 1930s * 6: Walter Muller: Class Cleavages and Party Preferences in Germany Old and New * 7: Kristen Ringdal and Kjell Hines: Changes in Class Voting in Norway * 8: Stefan Svallfors: The Class Politics of Swedish Welfare Policies * Part III: The New Class Politics of Post-Communism * 9: Petr Mateju, Blanka Rehakova and Geoffrey Evans: The Politics of Interests and Class Realignment in the Czech Republic * 10: Geoffrey Evans and Stephen Whitefield: The Emergence of Class Politics and Class Voting in Post-Communist Russia * Part IV: Re-Appraisal, Commentary and Conclusions * 11: David L. Weakliem and Anthony F. Heath: Resolving Disputes about Class Voting in Britain and the United States: Definitions, Models and Data * 12: Peter Mair, Seymour Martin Lipset, Michael Hout, and John Goldthorpe: Commentary: Four Perspectives on 'The End of Class Politics?' * 13: Geoffrey Evans: Class and Vote: Disrupting the Orthodoxy
* 1: Geoffrey Evans: Class Voting: From Premature Obituary to Reasoned Appraisal * Part 1: The Broad Comparative Picture * 2: Paul Nieuwbeerta and Nan Dirk De Graaf: Traditional Class Voting in 20 Postwar Societies * Part II: Case Study of Western Democracies * 3: John H. Goldthorpe: Modelling the Pattern of Class Voting in British Elections * 4: Michael Hout, Jeff Manza, and Clem Brooks: Classes, Unions, and the Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting: 1952-1992 * 5: David L. Weakliem and Anthony F. Heath: The Secret Life of Class Voting: Britain, France, and the United States Since the 1930s * 6: Walter Muller: Class Cleavages and Party Preferences in Germany Old and New * 7: Kristen Ringdal and Kjell Hines: Changes in Class Voting in Norway * 8: Stefan Svallfors: The Class Politics of Swedish Welfare Policies * Part III: The New Class Politics of Post-Communism * 9: Petr Mateju, Blanka Rehakova and Geoffrey Evans: The Politics of Interests and Class Realignment in the Czech Republic * 10: Geoffrey Evans and Stephen Whitefield: The Emergence of Class Politics and Class Voting in Post-Communist Russia * Part IV: Re-Appraisal, Commentary and Conclusions * 11: David L. Weakliem and Anthony F. Heath: Resolving Disputes about Class Voting in Britain and the United States: Definitions, Models and Data * 12: Peter Mair, Seymour Martin Lipset, Michael Hout, and John Goldthorpe: Commentary: Four Perspectives on 'The End of Class Politics?' * 13: Geoffrey Evans: Class and Vote: Disrupting the Orthodoxy
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